Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Ever since I discovered that my cable company is finally carrying ME-TV
(Thanks, Mayr!), my DVR is slowly filling up with all the other shows I haven't
been watching because I'm too busy getting my 'Perry Mason' fix twice a
day!

DELLA STREET

AS SEEN IN:

'Perry Mason'

Several TV movies

CREATED BY:

Earle Stanley Gardner

PORTRAYED BY:

Barbara Hale

TV STATUS:

Recastaway (Original)

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

From Wikipedia:

Della Street was the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running
series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring the
fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner.

A character named
Della Street first appeared in Gardner's unpublished novel "Reasonable Doubt",
where she was a secretary, but not the secretary of the lawyer, Ed Stark.
Gardner described her this way: "Della Street ..... Secretary, twenty-seven,
quiet, fast as hell on her feet, had been places. Worked in a carnival or side
show, knows all the lines, hard-boiled exterior, quietly efficient, puzzled over
the lawyer, chestnut hair, trim figure, some lines on her face, a hint of
weariness at the corners of her eyes."

When Gardner submitted "Reasonable Doubt" to William Morrow, an editor
suggested that "Della Street is a better character than the secretary." Gardner
took this suggestion when he rewrote "Reasonable Doubt" as "The Case of the Velvet
Claws" and made Della Street Perry Mason's secretary. In the published novel,
the carnival or side show was jettisoned, and Street came from a more
respectable background.

On television, Della Street was played by Barbara
Hale, in the series and the made-for-TV movies. She was played by Sharon Acker
in the short-lived revival series, 'The New Adventures of Perry Mason' starring
Monte Markham as Mason. (Toobworld note:That TV series takes place in an
alternate TV dimension. However, in my Toobworld novel, that Perry Mason is a
shape-shifting alien of the "bent-pinkie" species seen in "The
Invaders".)

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